A curator is seeking the family of a Scot who survived a World War II torpedo attack off the coast of Canada after his long lost watch was sent to a Glasgow museum.

The watch belonged to ship’s cook Sidney Worrall, who handed the timepiece to passenger Gerald Hutchinson during the rescue of the TSS Athenia which was torpedoed off the coast of Canada on September 3, 1939 - the first day of WWII.

The watch belonging to Sidney Worrall, a ship's cook from Scotland, has been returned to the Riverside Museum in Glasgow. PIC: Glasgow Life.

Mr Hutchinson kept the timepiece for more than 80 years but, following his death in 2015, his family would like to reunite the watch with its rightful owner.